I tested it last night and it seems to be working great. I have to figure out something for guide that Plex offers though. Plex shows two guides for DirecTV with my zip code. One contains the local channels and the other contains all of the national regular channels. Unfortunately, it won’t let me select from two different guides. I’m wondering if I can add a second tuner using the same info. I could select the local channels on one and the national channels on the other. I haven’t tested yet but I’ll give it a try sometime later.
Also, how did you setup your xteve to run in the background and boot automatically with Windows? It’s a portable executable but I really need it to run like a Windows service that boots with Windows and stays running all the time.
Thats sucks Plex is splitting up the local and national channels for DirectTV into separate providers.. Hopefully you can sort that out fairly easy. You might end up having to roll your own EPG/XMLTV file with Plex and xTeVe to combine them both tho. I’m not sure if Plex can handle having multiple providers for a single tuner, or even multiple tuners..
And as for auto starting xTeVe…
I just put a shortcut in the startup directory for Windows.. I don’t mind having the command prompt window visible since I dont use the VM for anything else…
Thanks again for the help. I was able to setup xteve to run as a service on startup. It looks like the best solution to my EPG/XMLTV problem is going to be to subscribe to Schedules Direct. It’s a pretty low cost service so I don’t really mind.
Since I’m going to need to use Schedules Direct and mc2xml to update the guide, how do I have it update? Right now it’s a manual process. I’m assuming it only loads a day or two of information and will need to be refreshed. I would need mc2xml to run to update the .xml file and then Plex needs to somehow know to go refresh the files as well.
You can use the built in program, “Task Scheduler” in Windows. You can create a basic task that’ll run the mc2xml.exe once a day. Then in xTeVe, theres a setting to specify when during the day it’ll update EPG from the XMLTV file. I’d set this 15 minutes apart to allow time for mc2xml to do its thing… Just make sure when you set up Plex you pass in the xTeVe hosted XMLTV file at http://localhost:34400/xmltv/xteve.xml…
I ended up purchasing a subscription to Schedules Direct and using their EPG/XMLTV. I also created a task to run mc2xml each day but it doesn’t seem to be running for some reason. I haven’t figured it out yet but still looking into it. It shows that its running the task but never updates the file. Hopefully I can get that part fixed and then everything will be running perfectly. Thanks again for all your help.
